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...plan for national control of education in any degree whatever, to the exclusion of local control, is vicious. It means another department, another set of insulating bureaucrats and a complication in the mechanism of administration. The word 'unAmerican' has still a certain meaning, in spite of Mr. Babbitt and his journalistic friends. It describes a point of view out of all harmony with the basic principles of the National Government. And in that sense of the word this entire attempt to place in the Administration at Washington control over the immediate concerns of the several states...
...dozen books to have read: Ann Severn and the Fieldings (Sinclair) Babbitt (Lewis); Black Oxen (Atherton); The Bright Shawl; (Hergesheimer); The Cathedral (Walpole); The Enchanted April (Elizabeth); Jurgen (Cabell); Last Poems (Housman); The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Hendrick); Many Marriages (Anderson); Some Distinguished Americans (O'Higgins); Where the Blue Begins (Morley...
This evening at 8 o'clock a Modern Language Conference will be held in the Common Room of Conant Hall. Professor Irving Babbitt '89 will speak on "Cicero and Humanism...
...American as she is spoke" has gradually become a different language from the "English wot the Tommies speak", and together the have taken up hundreds of slang expression in rebellion against literary English. This tendency has gone so far that when the novel "Babbitt" was introduced to England it was found necessary to print a glossary of "Americanisms" in the back; and recently a book on "The American Language" was published by Henry Louis Mencken, giving a host of slang terms that have come into use in this country. But it is to the advantage of everyone from American cabdriver...
...Upjohn and J. McC. Roots vs. B. Miller and D. Stralem, W. Jenney and C. Jenney vs. W. P. Ripley and N. Barber, E. B. Codman and A. Wyman vs. B. Bandler and E. N. Horn, L. Bondi and P. Dixon vs. F. R. Darrow and E. S. Babbitt...